Advertising device



Patented Sept, il, i923.

internat? BASIL ERNEST TARVIS1 OF NEWMARKET, ENGLAND, SSIS-NOR TO ALBERTEDWARD TILIIEY, 0F HOLBORN, LONDON, ENGLAND.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed June 1,

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, Basin Jinvis, oit GreenLodge, Newn'iarket, England, a British subject, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in or Relating to an Advertising Device, ofwhich the foliowing is a specification.

This invention relates to collapsible screens ot the kind constitutedbroadly by the combination of a lazy-tongs device with what may betermed the advertisii'ig screen, which is so attached to said devicethat according as the latter is extended or closed, the advertising`screen will be dis tended or furled.

Accordingto the present invention, the advertising vscreen consists oita sheet o fabric or the like attached to a spring-roller so as to bewound-up thereon when the roller is Ytreed to the action oli its spring;Jdie roller being mounted in proximity to the abutment or stationarysupport ol'V the lazy-tongs device with its axis at right angles to thedirection of movement of the free end ot said device, while the free endof the screen is attached to the free end ot the lazy-tongs device, withthe result that as said device is extended the screen will be drawn tromthe roller and distended over the lazy-tongs, whereas, when thelazy-tongs is collapsed or closed, the screen will be automaticallyrewound upon the roller.

In a modified form of the invention, the advertising screen consists ofa series of juxtaposedslats hinged one to another at their contiguousedges and wound upon a spring-roller as previously described, the freeend of the series ot slats being attached to the 'free end of thelazy-tongs device so that, according as said device is extended orcollapsed the series of slats will be drawn out over the lazy-tongs, orpermitted or caused to return to inoperative position by being re-woundupon the spring-roller.

The improved collapsible advertising screen is particularly applicablein connection with collapsible gates or the like ot the well-knowncollapsible-lattice type, and. is adapted to constitute a convenientmeans for the display ot advertisements which will be exhibited as aresult ot the gate or the like being closed.

An example ot the invention is illustrated by the accompanying; drawingswherein Figure l is an elevation and Figure 2 is a plan 1922. Serial No.565,135.

ot a collapsible gate of the well-known eollapsible-lattice type fitted,gto a li tt and having combined therewith, a scr-een adapted to hearadvertising matter so that said advertisement may be unexljieciedlydisplayed as and when the gate is closed. Figure 3 is a sectionalelevation on an enlarged scale show` ing the screen, the roller whereonit is rolled and the means for supporting the roller, Figure 4i is aplan thereof, Figure 5 is a fragmentary view also on an enlarged scaleof a portion oiE the tree end ot the screen and Figure G is a sectionalplan thereof.

As shown a sheet or strip ot fabric a.

adapted to bear an advertisement is attached at its one end to aspring-roller Z) and at its other end to the tree edge ot a collapsiblelattice gate c. The spring-'roller Z) is mounted in brackets (l, c whichare secured to the wooden lining or other part of the litt adjacent tothe openingl which the gate c is adapted to close.

The roller which may be of wood is furnished at its opposite ends withdished metal flange plates g, g and has coiled within a recess it aspring j one end of which is attached to hooks lc, f: mounted beneath aiiange plate g and the other end of which (not shown) is attached to acoaxially disposed key m the lower end of which extends into the recess7L while its upper end is Hattened as at a and is received in a.correspondingly shaped aperture o in the upper bracket (Z, which ispacked by a block p. The key m. and the one end of the spring 7' arethus held against rotation while the other end of said spring is adaptedto be carried round with the roller o as the latter is rotated and inthis manner the spring may be stressed.

The lower end of the roller o is recessed axially as at g to receive theupper end of a pintle r slidable in guideways in the lower bracket c andnormally pressed into its position of engagement by a coiled spring s,said pintle r being furnished with a knurled knob t or the like in orderthat it may be withdrawn readily to release the roller Z) and permit itto be replaced by another bearing other advertising matter.

For this latter purpose the free end of the screen a may be detachablyconnected with the corresponding edge of the gate. instance asillustrated, particularly in Figures 5 and 6, metal plates a formed withkeyhole slots o may be sewn riveted or For i otherwise attached to thescreen c, which ie apertured or loi-ined .vith corresponding keyholeslots, and adapted to coact ivith hea-ded pins such as w screwed orsimilarly secured to the adjacent channelled ineinber or the end sectionoil" the gate c. The inarginal portions of the plates a around thekeyhole slots n may be pressed ont Slightly as shown in Figure 6 so thatas a plate is slid down behind the head of a pin w it becomes rmly'wedged into position. It de- `eired a single plate formed with aplurality oit such keyhole slots may be employed.

l. An advertising device coiieisting in the combination with acollapsible lattice-gate oli the lazy-tongtype ot a Screen olf the.epring-1 ollerblind type 'for the display oi' advertisements andadapted to be (listeiniled over the lattice-gate as a result ol theexeneion thereof across the `ateivay-opiming, Said screen comprising' asheet ol" flexible material attach-ed by ite respective terminal edgesto a point toward the Yiii-ee end oil? the `lattice-gate and to a rollermounted in etationary position on a'lixed support adjacent io that sideof the gateway-opening Whereat the other end 'ofi the lattice-gate isperinanently lixed, Said roller being adapted to revolve underspring-action to wind the screen upon the roller as the gate is being`opened, brackets for rcn'iovably nioul'iting said roller on the fixedsupport and means -v-,f'hereby the free terminal edge of the Screen isadapted to be detached at will from the lattice-gate.

2. in advertising device as claimed in claim l, wherein the spring forcausing the roller to revolve ie coiled around a non-rotatable key Which extends axially of the roller from one end thereoie into a cavitytherein, the ends or Said spring being attached to the key and to theroller respectively.

3. An advertising device as claiined in claim l, wherein one end of theroller is iitted t revolve about a non-rotatable key, While the otherend of the roller has an axial socket adapted to engage rotatably overan anziallyretractable pintle carried by the adjacent Supporting-bracket,and n'oriiially retained in the Socket by spring-action.

4:. An advertisine` device as claiined in claim l, wherein one end ofthe roller is fitted to revolve about a iioiii'otatable key `which has apart olf its length projecting beyond the adjacent end of the roller andis adapted to engage, removably and non-rotatably, in a socket on theadjacent supportu ing-bracket- 5. An advertising` device as claimed inclaiin l, wherein the free terminal ledge of the screen is furnishedWith a metal plate having; a keyhole slot7 While a headed pin adaptedfor engagen'ient with said slot is iixed to the lattice-gate.

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